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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-30
St. Paul VS.. Des Moines To-Day.

The st. Paul and Des Moines base
ball teams will play to-day the game
postponed from Aug. IS. Sowders and
Kemmler for the home team and Hutch
inson and Sutcliffe for the visitors will
be the batteries.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-30

A. chants known to have no flies on
MGr Choose this page to advertise on.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03
GENERAL NOTES.

On farm near Elgin, Illinois, a linn
tied vein of gas was struck by well-borers
at depth of 120 feet.
THE American whaling fleet has degen-
Grated to 121 vessels, One-thlrd o which
are offered for sale. The total catch of
the year just-ended was 10000 barrels of
oil and 300,500 pounds of whalebone.
FRANK HOLMES of Pentwater, Mich,
was devoured by wolves in Delta County,
but killed five of the brutes before he
met death. Holmes had accidentally cut
himself, and was alone when attacked,
his companion having gone for help.
Two children at Niagara Falls slid into
a swollen sewer which runs under the town
and empties into the river near the whirl-
pool. They were ten minutes in making
the dark passage, but were rescued by
men at the outer end, secured by ropes.
Although apparently lifeless, the little
ones were resusciated.
MINING circles at Milwaukee were agi-
tated Thursday by the report that Mr..
under which Aurora, East Norrie, Ash
land, and Pabst mines are operated, and
that he proposed to enter the lands on
Porterfeld scrip certificates.
AN elevated railroad company with a
ponderous title announces that it has Sc
cured right of way in and about Chicago
for twenty-five miles of track, from Jack
son and State streets down the latter
thoroughfare to the city limits, thence to
Kensington and South Chicago.
The annual report of the statistics of
the industries of Pennsylvania says, un-
der the head of lumber and its products,
that there are employed therein 25.-
575 persons, whose average weekly wages
are $685. each. There are 800 .tanneries,
with over 5000 employees, to whom are
paid $2,017,327 in wages. Of street pas
senger railways there are reported A,
with 4, 400 employees, whose yearly wages
average 1851 each. Philadelphia contri-
butes Is of these companies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

2THE assassins of the Harris brothers,
who were thought to have been released
from jail at Warren, Ark, by masked
men, were promptly lynced on the river
bank.
THREE masked men at Richmond, Tex,
captured the ticket agent of the Santa
Fe road and forced him to open the safe,
which contained 1925 in cash.
AT farm house near Salem, ILL.,, John
Ti,oi po Killed Oren6 TUUl with u pocket
knife, and made his escape from the
vicinity. Phelps is 30 years of age and
his victim is ten years younger.
ABNER LEToHER, of Point Pleasant, W.
Va, lad of Is years, has carried out the
threat to avenge the murder of his father
by Jason Borden. The corpse of the lat
ter was found Sunday in the woods where
the boy was hunting.
A JURY in Chicago found a verdict of
manslaughter, with a sentence of eleven
years in the penitentiary, against John
Baker, who last fall crushed the skull of
William Dryer with a bungstarter, as he
lay asleep.
A. L. WHITE, representing himself as
the agent of an Ohio wall paper concern,
has been swindling tho business men of
Mattoon, ILL, by getting them to cash
forged checks. He is still on his travels.
BILL SHARP, noted desperate, was
arrested in Almena, Mich. Tuesday.
night He is wanted for burglarizing
the home of an aged couple near New
castle. Pa, last August, robbing them of
nearly $4,000. He is also wanted for
bigamy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03

BY the burning of cotton-shed on the
corner of Shelby and South streets,
Memphis, property valued at $500. 900
was reduced to ashes.
The pill factory of Brent, Good 4 Co..
at New York, was Quilted by fire Tuesday.
The total loss foots up $50, 1000.
FLOOD at Buffalo, did great damage
IN the Thirteenth ward, and caused a sus-
pension of the natural gas supply of the
city.
A FIRE at Dallas; Texas, burned three
OF the finest business buildings, occupie ed
by wholesale grocers, whose losses aggre-
gate 100000.
A PEE MATURE explosion took place in a
mine at Negaunee, Mich. Morris Kelly
and Henry Heisler were badly hurt, the
former having hand blown off.
F. C. SHARP, postmaster of Ocono, Wis,
has been arrested for rihing registered
letters. On his person was found $120
In bills marked by Inspector Kidder and
placed In decoy letters. The criminal
was citizen above suspicion and pub
lished the leading newspaper in that city.
The robberies have been frequent for a
month past.
Four steel boilers exploded in the
works of a steel and iron establishment
near Pittsburg, Tuesday morning, de-
stroying the works and killing two men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03
Hens on the Farm

I admit tina hens are profitable if prop
erly cared for, but still I believe that
many people overestimate the amount of
real profit. If the bother, and mischief,
and time spent ia caring for them were
taken into account, it would less the ac-
count considerably. Those who love and
care for them, however, do not begrudge
the time nor labor. Many who have
never kept but dozen or fifteen hens
fancy that two or three hundred would
yield corresponding income if kept in
the same flock together. This has
beeu tried so many times, and always
yielded certain degree OF disappoint-
ment, that it is wonder so many people
still continue the experiment. There are
no more insects for three hundred than
for a single dozen, consequently the cost
of keeping is much greater in proportion
for the large flock. Another serious draw
back is the liability, or rather certainty,
of disease and lice with large flock, and
hawks, skunks, etc., are much more apt to
find them. Large focks kept together
pollute the soil as we'll as the atmosphose
while the hens and chicks run over each
other in feeding and become foul, and do
not attain so large size as when but few
ere kept This has always been the case,
and it is strange that people are slow to
find it out.
If one must keep a great number of
hens, let them be kept in separate focks
and so far apart that they will not unite.
The houses need not be large or expen-
sive, but yard will be necessary to shield
them from foxes, skunks, hawks, etc.
They can be let out to forage portion
of each day, and after being called in
again the houses and yards carefully
closed at night. This takes time and pa
thence, and any neglect means loss in the
hen business. They are good eaters, and
if not literally supplied will yield but
little income. Chicks as we'll as hens
want a good deal of food as well as a
good deal of waiting on, but they grow
rapidly if they get them, yielding quick
returns in poultry and in eggs. It
doesn't pay to bring them up singly;
they will be too old before commenting
to lay, and will never make good Layers.
Some recommend the hen turkey as an
incubator fur chickens. 1t is true she is
careful while Matching, bat she is miser-
able mother for them afterward if left to
roam about. I have kept fifteen or
twenty breeds of hens, and for hardness
the Plymouth Rocks head the list. Ham
burgs are the tenderest and most difficult
to raise, and then only in small focks.
They are easily swept away by disease
and lice, both young and old.
There is but little danger of OVERRIDING
the hen business. The number Of once
enthusiastic breeders that will give up
the business will offset the newcomers,
and, like other things, it will tend to find
it's own level Correspondence Germantown
Telegraph.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
A Passenger Train Wrecked by the
Explosion of a Locomotive
Boiler.
The Engineer and Fireman Hurled
Through the Air and Instantly
Killed.

CARMI. ILL.,, JAN 24-At 1 :35 this mora
ing, Just as the whistle OF the west bound
Louisville and Nashville passenger was
sounded for Hawthorne, station four
miles east of this city, the engine ex-
ploded, blowing the front Of the engine
out, the oowcatcher off, tearing up the
boiler, shartering up the bell, and scat
tering the fragments of the engine over
an acre of ground. The baggage and
mail car and the two passengers had been
hurled far from the track and lay crush
ed with their trucks torn from under
them. The sleeper Montezuma lay par
TALLY on the road bed. All along 300
rods the track was torn up and the
wrecked engine was almost buried in
the soft sand of the road grade. In a
ditch near the engine lay the lifeless
bodies of the unfortunate engineer
and fireman. The former,
Billy Hansacker, bore terrible
cash across the back of the head The
body of Robert Gray, the fireman, bore
deep cash in the back of the head, his
left hip was shattered and left arm
broken. The former lived with his
widowed mother in Mt. Vernon, Ill. The
latter was boarding in that city. The re-
mains of Hansacker were sent to his
home, while those of Gray were sent to
his parents in West Salem, Wis.
L. Bullet, of Evansville, Ind, had his
hand mashed. 81. R. Ridgway, st. Louis
drummer, had his breast and back badly
injured. Express Messenger WagRer's
hand and head were badly cut. The col
ored porter and several passengers receiv-
ed slight injuries.
There being about forty on board, the
escape of SO many uninjured was mira
culous. A construction train brought a
large force of men and at 2;30 a track
had been built around the wreck.
Henry D. Holycross, c., V. and G.
brakeman, slipped from the south-bound
freight below this city this morning and
was horribly mangled. His right leg was
cut off below the knee, his left hip sever
ed from the body, and the top of his head
crushed. He resided in Danville and
leaves young wife.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03

motion of Hoar the bill was amend
inserting provision for an appeal .
district court of Wyoming territoi
cases of imprisonment and it was PAL q
yeas, 49, neys, s. The senate then
journed.
Housc-On motion of Lanhom, TEL
the bill was passed appropriating $4,000
to enable the commissioner of agriculture
to make a special distribution of seed in
the drought stricken counties of Texas.
After further business the house went in
to committee OF the whole on the post
Office appropriation. The bill was pass
ed. The house again went into commit
tee of the whole on the District of Colum-
bla appropriation bill and after a brief
debate the committee rose. The bill was
passed and the house adjourned
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03
FOREIGN.

A BRITISH steamer collided at Shanghai
with Chinese transport, causing the loss
of several "a andarins and hundred sol
diers.
A COMPANY of Italians has undertaken
to light Rom 9 by electricity generated by
water power at the Tivoli falls.
TBE French in Tonquin have captured
the stronghold at which they were recent
ly repulsed. The loss of the rebels is re-
ported 500 killed.
The French have evacuated Tamatave,
and have nearly completed a telegraph
line from that place to the capital of
Madagascar.
GERMANY is reported to have determin-
ed to demand Of France an explanation
of the latter's war-like preparations on
the frontier.
THE speech of Queen Victoria at the
opening of parliament, predict that no
disturbance of the peace will arise from
the uuadjusted controversies in southern
EurOpe
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
WASHINGTON.

The president has approved the act
amending the act providing for the sale
of the Sac and Fox and Iowa Indian res
ervatiOns.
The secretary of the treasury sent a
communication to congress IN answer to
resolution stating that the amount due
from the Pacific railroad companies to
the United States on account of interest
and bonds was $157, 332,615.
Mr.. GUENrHEE presented a petition
from citizens of Princeton, Wis. asking
Congress to pay G.. Wick, United States
lock tender at White River lock, $500 for
loss of clothing and effects of himself and
family by the burning of the lock house
July 6, last.
IT is expected that the new S. silver
certificates will be ready for issue next
week. The first impressions have already
been received at the treasury department.
The new notes contain a vignettee of
Gen. Grant on the face and fac-similes
five silver dollars IN group on the back.
REPRESENTATIVE THOMPSON, of Ohio, on
behalf of the committee on private Land
Claims, called up the bill abrog ating the
powers of the executive officers oe the
United States in allowing indemnity To-
cations of script for confirmed unsatis-
fed private land claims, and vesting that
power in the United States courts. Pass
ed.
COMPTROLLER TRENHOLM has asked the
senate finance committee to report bill
relieving from taxation SO much of the
banknote circulation of national banks
as is based upon tho amount of bonds
which the laws makes it compulsory III pom
the banks to deposit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03
The Rapidly of Progress Toward Health,

IIe hdpIuIJy OF fTUSTtSS IUWafU HtaIL1I,
Even when good remedy for disease is selected,
depends in some measure upon the manner in
which it is taken Irregular interrupted doses
afford fair test of the efficacy of any med
icine, however salutary. Taken in proper doses
at prescribed intervals, a reliable curative will
effect the object of its use. Among remedies
which, systematically and persstently used, ac-
complish thorough and lasting cures, and pre-
vents the recurrence of periodic disease Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters ranks specially high: In
cases of dyspepsia debility rheumatism feyer
neys and bladder, constipation, and other organic
maladies, it is tried remedy, TO which the med
ical brotherhood have lent their professional
sanction. and which, as tonic, alternative and
household specific for disorders Of the stomach,
liver and bowels, has an unbounded popularity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03
Washing OilclOths.
Good Housekeeping

Too many servants think they need
not sweep floors of oilcloth if they are
going to wash it; the result is cloudy,
half cleaned look. Ouce in while, every
fourth week, perhaps, the water used for
washing stained or hardwood floors
should be hot, and have a tablespoonful
of turpentine and the same of oil in it,
the cloth to be wrung out of this and
used to wipe the floors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03

THERE are 25,SIO doctors in Great
Britain, or one for ev cry 1850 inhabit-
ants. In France the proportion is one
for every 1.400; in Austria, Germany and
Norway, for every 1900; in the United
States, one for every 600, while in Russia
there is only one for 6,226.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03

A FARMER near La Porte, Ind, has a
forest of sixty acres, representing every
variety known when that region was first
settled, from which tree has never been
cut
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03

The oldest person in France, perhaps
in the whole world, is said to be woman
who lives in the village of Auberive, in
Royans. She was born March Is, 1851,
and is therefore 125 years old. The au
thentic record of her birth is to be found
in the parish register Of st. Just de Claix
in the Department of the Isere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03

COLORADO in 1886 produced silver worth
$16,45O,921, lead worth $5,123,296, gold
worth $5,O87, 9O1, and copper worth $780,
$40, total of 1876, 794,es8, against $24,-
49, sos in 1885.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03
HERE AND THERE.

Canadian elections will take place next
month.
The highest fountain in Europe Is that
in the gardens of ChatswOrth, the seat or
the Duke of DevOnshire. The height OF
this famous Jet is 267 feet.
Potatoes marketed right after digging,
at forty cents, will give more profit than
if held over until spring and sold at fifty
cents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03

DURING 1886 there were made and sold
in the United States $4,000 sewing ma
chimes. Of these $4,000 were sold at
home and 10000 abroad. The machines
exported brought $2,19O,809 and they
vent to every country ON earth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03
A Valuable Receipt.

Dec0ratOr and ufn1Sh0r.
The true French polish is one pint of
spirits of wine added to quarter of an
ounce of gum copal, the same of gum
arabic and one ounce of shelac. This
polish is used for plain wood. The prin-'
ciple of action is the floating with oil the
gummy or resinous substances into the
pores, and bringing the polish up by
rubbing. The simplest varnish is shellac
dissolved in naphtha
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03

The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union in Virginia has adopted resolu-
of thanks to Mrs. Grover Cleveland for
her example in sustaining from into1i-
eating drinks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03
FEES AND CASUALTIES.

TaE paper-mills at Bridgeton, New
Jersey, valued at $4,000 were burned
Sunday morning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03

Doesn't that sound heavenly" wills
pered the younger Miss Gushington when
the groom declared to the bride: ssWith
all my worldly goods thee endow."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03

"a most extraordinary and absolute
cure for rheumatism and other bodily
ailments is st. Jacobs OIL" says Hon.
James Harlan, ex-Vice-Chancellor, Louis
villa XIV
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03


The ten commandments for bathers:
1, Do not battle when excited; 2, Do not
battle when feeling badly; 8, Do not battle
after having been up all night or after
excessive exertion, before resting several
hours; 4, Do not battle after taking a
heavy meal or alcoholic drinks; 5, Walk
slowly to the bathing place; 6, Inquire
after the depth and current of the water
as soon as you arrive there; Z, Undress
slowly, but go into the water at once; s,
Jump into the water with your head first
or wet the head quickly if you cannot do
the first; 9, Do not remain in the water
too long, especially if you are not very
strong; 10, After the bath rub the body
well to aid the circulation of the blood
and take moderate exercise. Bathing
and swimming is useful for body and
soul, not alone in warm, but also in cool
weather, if above advice is needed
From DR.. Foote's Health Monthly.
DR.. Morse, physician at Marine Hos
pital, Baltimore, Nd, found Red Star
Cough Cure harmless and most effective
remedy in the cure of coughs. He REQ
ommends it especially for children. who
are irritable and obstinate, as pleasant to
take and prompt in effect. Price, twenty
fve-cents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-03
SATURDAY, Jan. %.

Senote.-The senate bill to amend the
law establishing the Yellowstone park
which was under discussion yesterday
was taken up and further discussed. Or
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-20
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Miss May Stevens went to the Bay yes
terday.
William Mclaughlin went to Marysville
yesterday.
n. NJ La Rue left for Woodland yester-
day morning.
Sheriff Cunningham, of Stockton, was
III the city yesterday.
Dr. H H. Pierson has returned from trip
to the northern counties.
Add. C. Hinkson and C. NJ. Campbell
LETT for San Francisco yesterday.
Governor Waterman left on the train
yesterday afternoon for Oroville.
Marcus D. Boruck and Prof Otto Fleis-
ner came up from San Francisco yesterday.
A. j. Stevens and wife, General T. J.
Clunie and Chris. Green went below yes
terday.
The Walleck Minstlels went to Marys-
vile yesterday, to fulfill an engagement in
that city.
Mrs. E. W. Hale and daughter came up
from San Jose yesterday, where they have
been visiting
Mrs. George Cooper, and her son Roder-
lex, left on Sunday for trip to Scotland
and Europe. They viii remain absent
some six months.
Mrs. E. D. Plank started East yesterday
to visit her daughter, whom she has not
seen for fourteen years. She expects to re-
main East six months.
Arrivals at the Capital Hotel yesterday :
Leo L. Mccoy, George Champlain, E. II.
Ward, Red Bluff; Arthur W. Bell, Stock
ton: G. w. Caples, Folsom; f. N. Wand,
California Captain Ben Williams, En-
gland ; George a Smith CORTLAND; w. J.
Caples, Elk Grove; d. R. Talbert San
Francisco; A. H. Estell, Sacramento; w.
D. Dean. Colusa; E. Marquis, San Fran
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-20
Mcneil Club.

The first concert of the Mcneil Club
will take place at the new Metro
politan Theater this evening. 1t has ex-
cited good deal of the pleasure of antici-
patton, and there is reason to believe 1t
will not be disappointed. However, there
is such thing as expecting too much.
This is new organization the instructor
has had it on hand but about two months.
and while all the voices are those of expert
ence, and several of them much culture,
very much more must be looked for from
the Club six months hence tn IN now. But
the concert will be fine one tonight, one
of high excellence in all respects, unless all
signs fail. w. II. Kinross, the director,
will lead the Club. and will also take solo
parts. Miss Alice Dyer, soprano. and Miss
Mary Barnard, contralto, both of San Fran.
cisco, will assist the Club. Miss Amelia
BOIL, of Sacramento, will be the Club ac-
companist. Mr.. Stewart, of San Francisco,
will play the violin obligato to one of Miss
Dyer's numbers.
The programme will include baritone
solo by Mr.. Kinross, 1.-The Silver Cup"
" Margurites-Three Bouquets" by Miss
Dyer, with violin obligato, and "a Sum
mer Night" by the same vocalist; con-
tralto solo, God Guard Thee" by Miss
Barnard, and Noble Soldier (Hugenots), j."
by the same singer. Miss BOIL will play
" L Africaine Fantasia de Concert The
Club will sing Forsaken," by Kaschat;
THE Chafer and the Flower by Veit ;
Loves Greeting" by Appel; Martial
Hymn" by Gonres; "Serenade," by
Luchner; " Aud Lang Syne," Macy.